Sixties Sam

Nice clean build! The engine bay looks great - good details and clean! Very good work! Sam

Very cool! Needs some mud on it! Nice work! Sam

Cool idea! My eyes would have trouble making those! Sam

Really clean and beautiful build! Great work! Sam

Very nice! Great finish and foil work! Those 57's look good in black! Sam

Hey, all. I finished this Model T rusty pickup today. I posted the body mods in the on the workbench section. It's a chopped coupe body modified into a pickup. It wasn't too hard to do. The rest of the model is out of the box, except for the injectors from the Little Red Wagon kit, and the narrow front whitewalls from the parts box. The bed floor is made of coffee stirrers. Paint is cheap flat black with "rust" from red oxide primer and some powdered chalk. The headers are from an original double T kit, and the chrome is faded - perfect for a rat rod! I'll save the shiny ones for something else. I "blued" them with some thinned acrylic blue paint. This was a fun build, and it makes something a bit different from the chopped T coupe we've seen for 50 years! Comments welcome.

Great concept, well done! Good work! Sam

Excellent! I like the silver with red & black interior combo! Great work! Sam

Very nice build! Great work on the utility body! Sam

Update: I decided to make this truck a mild rat rod (if there is such a thing). Painted flat black with a surface rust patina. Orange wheels with whitewalls. Lincoln engine from the kit with injector stacks from the hemi in the Little Red Wagon kit. I cut the top open in rat rod style, and made a wood plank bed from coffee stirrers with some mahogany stain on them. It's coming along! BTW, thanks for all the nice compliments on the idea of making a pickup cab from the coupe body. Given that this coupe body goes back to about 1961, I'm sure someone must have done this before - many times! Sam

Ditto what he said! Love the old Mopars! Sam

Wow! That's nice! Great work on the wood and paint. excellent build! Sam

Looks good! Those snap kits are nice for a quick, easy build! Great work! Sam

Here's one I did in 1/12 scale using a ball link from an R/C plane. Easy in that scale!

Very nice Vette! I like the color. Very well done! Sam

Sweet! Great color - really pops! Sam

Beautiful build! Nice job on the woodwork, and the open cowl vent is a nice touch. Great work! Sam

Dan, that's really similar. I like the visor on yours. I might use that idea on my model. Do you have a photo of your finished model? Sam

I don't usually post to the on the workbench section, but I'm doing some surgery on this one, so I thought it might be interesting. I recently got the re-released 25 T double kit, and wanted to make something different with the chopped coupe body. I cut off the turtledeck, and shortened the body. I'll use the hot rod chassis from the kit, and maybe the engine too. Here's what I did so far. Cuts were made with a Dremel with an abrasive wheel. The last photo is a mock up of sort of what it will look like. My original thought was to make it a rat rod with rust, but I'm not sure.

Nice clean build! Great color. Good work! Sam

Barrel stove - resin 55 gallon drum with door, hinges, and handle added. Bendy straw for pipe, aluminum flashing for heat shield. Tire rack - made from basswood and Q-tips.

Nice rat! Well done weathering and chop. The wiring detail on the firewall is a nice touch, too! Good work! Sam

Very nice! You don't see many of these built stock. Great work! Sam

Very nice Corvair! Great finish and foil work! Sam

Pretty cool hot rod! I like the O.D. and white color scheme - just seems right for it! The only thing I might have done different is to fill in the original front wheel wells, but they still look cool! Sam